wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) (01/02/91)
OK folks, a emacs question from a vi user..... A friend wants to set up a system with an idiot-proof editor. Most of the people who will be using it have experience in either WordPerfect *or* Word. The demands of this system would be VERY low -- mostly entering and editing a few lines of text, and saving or including outside files. Now I know you can build frontends for emacs. q1) Can a simple front end be made to resemble the most basic behavior of the two wordprocessors? The key strokes will need some relation to the PC commands, such as {meta} 7 for F7. q2) Can this front end have a 'safehaven' key, such that no matter how confused the user is, hitting x times gets you to a fixed point (the way multiple escapes in vi gets you to the command mode, with no fate worse than a BEEP or two) where she/he can recover? q3) Can the powerful/dangerous aspects be disabled, so that Joe/jill does not end up in real trouble. Note that most of the work will be done in the REAL Word{Perfect} and included, so this really is a minimum_function system. Comments/Flames/Free Beer........ -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335